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Anniston Alabama vs. Monsanto
This is old news, but I hadn’t heard about it until I read an article where the Anniston, Alabama case against Monsanto was alluded to. I looked it up and found this informative piece by Maryam Henien at the HoneyColony blog: From the ’40s to ’70s, Monsanto knowingly dumped millions of pounds of the now-banned…
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Yashika Graham – 100,00 Poets for Change
Yashika Graham reads her poem Conscience at the Poetry Society of Jamaica.
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Dis-Honest Tea
Honest Tea is owned by Coca-Cola. And Coca-Cola spent $3.2 million to defeat GMO labeling laws in California and Washington State, some of that money illegally laundered through the Grocery Manufacturers Association (that anti-consumer group that has spent millions defeating GMO labeling laws, that has a bill in Congress to preempt state labeling laws, and has filed suit against…
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Big Food Produces “Illth” to Boost Profits
The New York Times has a great article by Mark Bittman in the Op-Ed Section. He writes about how Big Food is killing its customers in its quest to increase profits : You can buy food from farmers — directly, through markets, any way you can find — and I hope you do. But unless you’re radically different…
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Our Contribution To The Fossil Record
Originally posted on The Dish: Mother Earth has turned our plastic trash into a new type of stone: Most plastic in the ocean disintegrates into small pieces (which don’t go away, either), but some of it melts into “molten” plastic, and it fuses with all the regular, organic materials below it, forming a super-hard monolithic stone. It was…
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Moral Monday Shames North Carolina Legislature
Moral Mondays Shames NC Lawmakers, So They’re Restricting Statehouse Access (via http://crooksandliars.com) By karoli May 17, 2014 8:00 am – Comments North Carolina lawmakers announced strict new rules aimed at limiting Moral Monday protests, or even better, ending them. Conservatives in North Carolina really do not like the weekly protests in the state capitol…
The Village Market 